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Border Crossing Gives Visitors Quite a Kick

India, Pakistan Clash About Toning Down Cherished Ceremony

WAGAH BORDER, India and Pakistan—At sunset every day here, India's hostile relationship with Pakistan is acted out in a bizarre military tradition known as the "Beating Retreat Ceremony."

Paramilitary border guards in ceremonial turbans take part in an exaggerated and athletic military drill. Pakistani and Indian guards march with feet kicked above head height then slammed to the ground before flags are lowered and the border gates are closed. For years, they have taunted each other with raised fists and puffed up...

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Every day at sunset, Indian and Pakistani guards on the Wagah border face off in a militaristic flag-lowering exercise called the Beating Retreat Ceremony. WSJ's Tom Wright reports on India's effort to tone down the bizarre display.